So here I was lamenting the fact that I had some great full art cards but the bulk of my cards were boring standard cards with clunky big text boxes and minimal art. Somehow the normal cards just didn't look all that special anymore.

While filling in an hour at lunch I got playing with the magic set editor program and began toying with making some kind of cube - which wasn't really going anywhere until I tried making a fill are Taiga. I was plesently surprised at how good it looked and so I began making other full art cards.

Then it hit me... why not make a full art deck?

When I figure how to display the deck in its current configuration I will put it up here. For now I'd like to share a pair of the full art cards as they stand...

Sea Gate Oracle

Lightning Angel

It's been a busy couple of days, and out of this there have emerged a number of new decks - two in paper and one on MTGO. So without further ado please put your hands together give a wild Magic Matters welcome to...

Actually it is a standard Bant deckfor multiplayer magic. Exalted decks typically died to wrath effects - in much the same way that Ally decks do. My solution was to use the Exalted enchantments to create a board pressence post wrath that turned any creature played into a mean stompin' machine.

I don't see them as being high picks in drafts unless you already have a proliferate target. It is important to have options in the cube that add value to fringe stratergies., cards that have increased value with a slightly different context as Mr Chapin so like to say.

The removal of Sarkhan Vol deserves comment.

Sarkhan has been sub optimal in all of the drafts I have drafted him. He has almost never made the cut in the final 40 and was not considered worthy of remaining.

Cube Deck - Esper Artifacts

I once saw an article written by Thea where she looked at building architypes from the cards in the cube. It has been something that I have wanted to try, but never found the time until now.

The first deck I have constructed is Esper Artifacts which as the name suggests consists of primarily artifacts and supporting spells. There are a number of limitations with the build due which are imposed by there being only one of each card in the cube and a minimum of eight decks to build.

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts as to the build I have come up with.

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